Bellum Beta Build #741

Changes since Build 725 · Verified through Build 741.

B-TAK & Communications

• Overhauled the phone map with a new device interface, live roster, communications, match information and app navigation.
• Added Satellite, Paper and Paper Dark map styles, including terrain contours, building footprints and water.
• Added MGRS coordinates with full and abbreviated grid entry.
• Added building reference grids with building numbers, block ranges and a visibility toggle.
• Added Squad, Platoon and Command text channels, unread indicators and grid-linked quick messages.
• Quick messages include Troops In Contact, MASCAL, Combat Ineffective and Established, with visible cooldowns.
• Added fireteam-colored lines connecting members to their leader.
• Improved player markers, squad symbols, callsign labels and deployment spawn indicators.
• Updated the wristwatch to a heading-up satellite map showing your squad, orders, objectives and building references.
• Added drone flight instruments for heading, battery, altitude above ground, speed and grid position.

Command & Organization

• Added platoon-command tools for squad tasks, named phase lines, lanes, freehand drawing and control points.
• Added Release Point, Fallback and Mortar Firing Point markers.
• Added a commander-edited Order of March board that can be published to the platoon.
• Added fireteam attachment requests through the roster, with approval, denial, cancellation and return controls.
• Improved leadership succession and the handover of eligible command equipment.
• Updated Patrol Base and ORP inheritance for Rangers and SATYR.
• Command equipment now respects game-mode restrictions.

B-TAK Controls & Fixes

• Ctrl + mouse wheel adjusts marker size.
• Ctrl + Z undoes your last marker placement, move or deletion.
• Middle-click deletes your marker; platoon command can delete other team markers.
• C toggles Controls; Escape cancels drawing.
• Fixed building numbers disappearing after respawn or role changes.
• Fixed marker replacement, map-tool input conflicts and vote controls.
• Fixed channel history and unread counts when changing squads or teams.
• Improved team-based marker visibility and preserved existing markers when a new request is rejected.
• Improved phone stability, screen clarity and framing.
• Fixed bright device screens excessively darkening the surrounding world.
• Restored cursor behavior after using B-TAK or Settings.
• Restored after-action map zooming and right-click dragging.

Mortars

• Added crewed Type 63 and 2B25 mortar emplacements with gunner and assistant interactions.
• Updated mortar roles and equipment across faction rosters, including Rangers.
• Added assembly, loading, firing, pickup and disassembly animations and sounds.
• Added improved sights and range cards showing charge, range, elevation and time of flight.
• Refined fine aiming and baseplate rotation.
• Added small aim displacement after firing.
• Only the original mortarman can recover their emplacement; friendlies can still man and load it.
• Enemy players can disable emplacements through interaction.
• Owner death disables the emplacement; owner resupply removes it.
• Added mortar equipment and role icons, improved textures, firing effects and incoming-shell whistles.

Recon & Mortar Availability

• Recon roles now require at least 20 players on your team.
• Mortar roles now require at least 30 players on your team.
• These requirements apply across all three factions and update as team population changes.
• If population drops below the requirement, players already occupying these roles keep their slots, lives and respawn access.

Ammunition & Resupply

• Added a shared 20-minute cooldown across field resupply categories.
• FOB refills remain unlimited and independent of the field cooldown.
• FOB is now the only place to refill crossloaded spots
• PBs must be placed outside of the AO again
• The field timer persists through death and redeployment, with a visible countdown.
• Resupply charges are consumed only when supplies are actually restored.
• Crate withdrawals refill missing kit supplies before using crossload space.
• Added immediate crate-wheel feedback, refusal reasons and a central kit-supply gauge.
• The crate wheel now stays open after refilling.
• Rebalanced faction starting magazines and belts; removed unintended RPD ammunition from the al-Zalaam rifleman.
• AZ gets 1 additional magazine
• Updated mortar HE allocations:
  • Rangers: 12 for the team leader, 8 for the gunner.
  • al-Zalaam: 12 for the team leader, 8 for the gunner.
  • SATYR: 10 for the team leader, 6 for the gunner.
• Restored rocket launcher and mortar HE crossload options on FOB spawns and crossload crate
• Fixed crossloaded GM-94 ammunition failing to update correctly on the owning client.

Damage & Medical

• Explosives retain damage and kill attribution after the connected thrower dies
• Corrected explosive damage bounds, repeated damage callbacks, rocket building-damage tags and thermobaric damage handling.
• Soldier bodies no longer obstruct thermobaric damage checks.
• Getting back up clears the previous down/kill attribution record for AAR
• Concussion knockouts now use variable thresholds and blackout durations.
• Fixed the narrowed eyelid effect persisting after waking from concussion.
• Corrected SATYR helmet collision to match its covered-ear shape.

Weapons, Movement & Interaction

• Reduced firing aim punch across firearms.
• Smoothed prone aiming with a moving turn cone and gradual weapon catch-up during large turns.
• Improved freelook around the head and weapon-stock clearance while aiming.
• Mounted weapons can now disengage after a deliberate, sustained push beyond their aiming arc.
• Fixed right-hand rotation during mounted-prone recoil.
• Added and refined weapon-specific bipod folding and unfolding animations.
• Added Weapon Mount to the configurable input bindings.
• Fixed crouch activating unintentionally after recognized key combinations.
• Improved vault eligibility checks and input retry behavior.
• Selecting the equipment already in your hands no longer restarts the equip cycle.
• Server-rejected explosive and equipment placements now correctly report failure.
• Improved ragdoll spin limiting and fixed dragged bodies being flung by position corrections.
• Fixed remote-player bodies, weapons, gunfire and launcher projectiles on listen servers.
• Updated ammunition names and launcher kill-feed icons.
• Fixed rounds missing from the incoming magazine during AK-74M empty reloads.
• Improved textures and material finishes across rifles, machine guns, launchers, optics and grenades.

Maps & World

• Added Tsavo AO3–AO7 and Highlands AO7.
• Repositioned Tsavo AO2–AO7 and Highlands AO1–AO7 team starts to 1,000 meters outside their objective boundaries (to accommodate for mortars)
• Adjusted world borders to accommodate the updated starts and approaches.
• Improved start and FOB placement above the terrain.
• Fixed FOB resupply crates spawning before the ground was available.
• Patrol Base and ORP backpacks now settle individually onto slopes, with placement checks suited to uneven ground.
• Increased Tsavo bush density and extended vegetation draw distances.
• Moved Tsavo bushes to baked placement and corrected vegetation-generation issues.
• Updated Tsavo AO7 terrain, vegetation and landscape seams.
• Corrected overly pale Tsavo boulders.
• Refreshed Tsavo Paper maps to match the terrain and fixed artifacts beyond map edges.
• Temporarily reduced lighting intensity in Tsavo tunnels and caves.
• Reduced Kambori heat haze intensity.
• Improved wind and explosion response on selected vegetation.

Graphics, Performance & Audio

• Restored optimization in soldier, medical-reaction and firearm code.
• Reduced repeated B-TAK interface work and excessive respawn diagnostics.
• Improved landscape shader precaching and selected visual-effect pooling.
• Increased Medium view distance to match High.
• Standardized shared rendering settings across production maps.
• Improved Nanite detail settings and scaled its streaming memory budget to GPU VRAM.
• Updated recommended DLSS presets for RTX ⁴⁰⁄₅₀ cards in DLAA, Quality, Balanced and Auto modes.
• Improved phone and watch sharpness, reduced screen shimmer and updated watch-glass reflections.
• The visible first-person watch now updates every frame.
• Corrected previous-frame foliage wind inputs.
• Reduced unnecessary explosion-driven foliage work; foliage blast response is disabled on Low Effects.
• Fixed weighted footstep audio behavior and stone-fall sounds being cut short.
• Corrected duplicate explosive audio and updated grenade-launcher, thermobaric and mortar sounds.

Spectator, Admin & Stability

• AAR review is now available in the Astarte Launcher.
• Added a spectator event log with a match timeline.
• Selecting an event flies the camera to the decisive hit and displays shooter/casualty ghosts with the recorded projectile or fragment path.
• Added an admin-camera score banner showing manpower, influence, match time, map, mode and Building Hunt objectives.
• Improved spectator focus controls, aperture settings and armor-overlay exposure.
• Hide UI now hides gameplay overlays consistently and restores them when leaving the camera.
• Added server-configurable match replay recording.
• Renamed the debrief’s HITS statistic to ENEMIES HIT.
• Fixed server crashes involving invalid map-marker requests.
• Tightened team-role, player-movement, respawn, marker and vote validation.
• Corrected HATL role abilities to prevent unintended CCP pickup.